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Pike-Blennies, Tube-Blennies, and Flagblennies
Chaenopsidae
The blennioid family Chaenopsidae includes the pike-blennies, tube-blennies, and flagblennies, all perciform marine fish. The family is strictly tropical, ranging from North to South America. Members are also present in waters off Japan, Taiwan and Korea. Fourteen genera and 90 species are represented, the largest being the sarcastic fringehead, Neoclinus blanchardi, at 30 cm (12 in) in length; most are much smaller, and the group includes perhaps the smallest of all vertebrates, Acanthemblemaria paula, measuring just 1.3 cm (0.51 in)...
13 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 93 known species
Acanthemblemaria
genusAcanthemblemaria
Fringeheads
genusNeoclinus
Coralliozetus
genusCoralliozetus
Emblemaria
genusEmblemaria
Chaenopsis
genusChaenopsis
Emblemariopsis
genusEmblemariopsis
Ekemblemaria
genusEkemblemaria
Arrow Blennies
genusLucayablennius
Protemblemaria
genusProtemblemaria
Tufted Blennies
genusMccoskerichthys
Wrasse Blennies
genusHemiemblemaria
Plume Blennies
genusCirriemblemaria
Tanyemblemaria
genusTanyemblemaria
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 85674.